Here are eight short stories by award-winning author Richard S. Wheeler. Some are contemporary, some historical, but all are connected to the American West. Seven were published in anthologies, but this collection has a comic new story, Looking for Love at a Romance Writers Convention. Another, The Last Days of Dominic Prince, was a finalist for the Spur Award, and deals with a modern rancher who roped a mountain lion and discovered that not everyone approved. The Great Filibuster of 1975 is about some miscreants on the border who attempt to saw off a piece of Mexico and add it to the United States. There are historical stories too, including one about a legendary gambling lady who refused to let a plague-bearing river boat dock in Fort Benton, Montana. Another, The Business of Dying, is a tender story is about a dying young gold miner in California who sums up his short life.